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The Norwegian Troll movie has hit Netflix, it's a fun kaiju romp with a good old-fashioned "Government bigwigs won't listen to the scientist with a crackpot idea so she has to become a loose cannon" plot. If you liked Troll Hunter it's more of the same except with more explosions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiohkY_XQYQ It 
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Yeah it's an excellent and fun kaiju film. It's fun to remember that the Troll is the same size as the 1954 Godzilla.
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Kojima gave Troll a big thumbs up https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1602114341876404224
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gently caress yeah, I cannot wait! Ive been trying to get my wife to watch Trollhunter with me but she won't budge.  God I loved that movie - found footage was hot as hell back then. Wonder how it holds up.
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There's a Kickstarter going for an omnibus collection of all the Legendary Godzillaverse comics https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendarycomics/monsterverse?ref=discovery&term=godzilla
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How does that work? I'm not sure you can crowdfund for a company to release something. It's entirely down to them and if they see a profit in it. I guess it shows interest, but it has barely any backers at the moment so it might have the opposite effect. EDIT: Unless, wait, it's actually Legendary themselves who set it up?
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Karloff posted:How does that work? I'm not sure you can crowdfund for a company to release something. It's entirely down to them and if they see a profit in it. I guess it shows interest, but it has barely any backers at the moment so it might have the opposite effect. that would appear to be the case yes 
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Well, shows what I know. That's a new one to me.
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Would be vaguely tempting if I hadn't already read Awakening and Aftershock and found them barely worth the time it took.
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It's hosed up that they've got patches for Godzilla, King Kong, and Mechagodzilla, but no Mothra.
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The Articulation series is doing little acrylic pieces from the NES Godzilla game, they look so good!! https://www.shma-articulationseries...L6yVleE#acrylic   
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I recently watched Shin Kamen Rider and Zeiram (both '92) after remembering Hakaider and wanting more in that style.  Shin Kamen Rider is a mess, and worse, dull. Shin Kazamatsuri is a medical guinea pig for research meant to combat disease (like, in general) and strengthen human constitution, but he's plagued by strange dreams where he watches a monster kill women. He comes to doubt not only his sanity but the good nature of his caretakers, which include his father and his girlfriend, Ai. Eventually he learns that Onizuka, one of the lead researchers, has been performing human/grasshopper genetic experiments on himself and Shin in hopes of creating a race to succeed humanity. The strange dreams Shin has had were him experiencing the researcher's spree kills through grasshopper telepathy (?). This is all over-complicated by a secondary conflict between the mysterious organization funding the research and the CIA, who are bafflingly depicted as revolutionaries (?). On top of that, Shin's escape from the facility puts Ai in danger, as unbeknownst to her she's pregnant with Shin's half-grasshopper child (!), the fetus of which glows and rotates in space as sort of a vinyl model of 2001's Star Child (?!?!). There's also a killer robot because Shin needs someone else to fight after his obvious counterpart, Onizuka, is killed halfway through the movie. The gross body horror tries its damnedest to save this film, but on top of everything else the pacing is too drat slow. There's maybe two 22 minute episodes worth of plot in Shin Kamen Rider, but it's stretched out over 90 minutes of film. It's just not goopy or weird enough to make up for the fact that nothing ever loving happens.   By contrast, Zeiram is loving fantastic. A space civilization's sentient bioweapon, Zeiram, escapes containment and flees to Earth. It's pursued by Iria and Bob, blue collar space bounty hunters trying to stay ahead on their debts. Their plans to isolate Zeiram in an adjacent dimension where they can capture it without alerting any Earthlings is confounded when two electrical engineers for the city stumble in trying to figure out who's stealing electricity. What proceeds is basically Alien vs Mario and Luigi. It has some real gorgeous effects! Great creature designs, some great mattes, a lot of goop, several wack rear end crystal prisons, and some incredible step motion animation. On top of all that, it's just an enjoyable story, with Iria and Bob doing having to hustle to capture the monster, keep the earth dopes alive, and hopefully, hopefully, stay in the black after this poo poo's all over. Track this one down. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Dec 26, 2022 |
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Earth Destruction Order: Godzilla x Gigan
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That was the most Bleach-to-DBZ-rear end Kaiju fight I've ever seen and it owned. I'll always prefer classic Gigan for being peak weird but Final Wars Gigan was a fun design.
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What I really enjoy about that person's (studio's?) works are that they aren't the best CGI but the choreography is always top notch
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Reveal yourself https://twitter.com/goji_guy/status/1610428032702980097?s=46&t=zZWVG50oBh2G-OztV9RG1g
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I hope he's trying to get enough to build a Godzilla statue
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Reveal yourself The guy in the replies with 4,000 copies of Sneak King 
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let that be a warning to all you goons who post in the physical media thread
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Mantis42 posted:let that be a warning to all you goons who post in the physical media thread I think you mean challenge!
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Kids were watching the later Heisei Godzillas and I wondered if the creators of Godzilla were ever like "oh what has our modern parable for the dangers of science become".
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FilthyImp posted:Kids were watching the later Heisei Godzillas and I wondered if the creators of Godzilla were ever like "oh what has our modern parable for the dangers of science become". They did that after the Showa movies were done for obvious reasons
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FilthyImp posted:Kids were watching the later Heisei Godzillas and I wondered if the creators of Godzilla were ever like "oh what has our modern parable for the dangers of science become". Honda: "I don't really have a positive or negative opinion about them [the Heisei Godzilla films]. The special effects technically are very sophisticated, but the films lack imagination. It seems as if all Toho is trying to do is show things being destroyed. I don't fault the members of the production department, though, because I know that that is what Toho's executives are demanding." As quoted by David Milner, "Ishiro Honda Interview", Kaiju Conversations (December 1992)
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Finished the Daimajin sequels. They're fun but I feel like the whole trilogy is just kinda waiting around each movie for the rampage at the end. Which in fairness is always sick as hell.
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So it’s my birthday and I’m chilling at a friends and he goes and says he has a gift for me and drops this It’s apparently a shogun Godzilla from the 70s that his father in law bought back then and has kept it since. He found it doing some spring cleaning and was going to pitch it before remembering I was a fan. This poo poo rules super hard I love it.
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Now that’s a goddamn find - amazing!!
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The good ol days when merchandise had no obligation to be on model.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:So it’s my birthday and I’m chilling at a friends and he goes and says he has a gift for me and drops this Found one at a garage sale about a decade ago(alongside a Raydeen from the same line) and yeah it's pretty awesome, need to give mine some restoration work though
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:So it’s my birthday and I’m chilling at a friends and he goes and says he has a gift for me and drops this Hell yeah
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:So it’s my birthday and I’m chilling at a friends and he goes and says he has a gift for me and drops this This is a grail, treasure it. The reissue goes for $55
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That What To Do With A Dead Kaiju film was released in Japan back in early February, has anyone seen it or does anyone know when it'll be available outside Japan? I finally got my hands on a copy of this with English subtitles and got to see it after waiting almost a whole year. It's pretty low budget and I won't say it's great but it's got it's moments, and anyone who is a fan of the genre should definitely track it down. It obviously apes Shin Godzilla quite a lot in that it's whole premise is various governmental ministers and agencies fighting over who should shoulder the responsibility or claim the credit for dealing with a dead kaiju which could either become a huge environmental disaster or a tourism attraction worth trillions of yen, unfortunately all the political scenes are just overloaded with slapstick and farce so they get pretty tedious real fast. There's pretty much zero kaiju action because they obviously didn't have the budget to animate the CGI model so you only ever see the lifeless corpse, you don't even see flashbacks or news segments showing its rampage through the city before it died. I still haven't tracked this one down which is obviously even more farcical and has pretty much zero budget: Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also there's a super low budget Covid19-themed comedy Kaiju film coming out at some point called Tokusatsu Kigeki Ooki Yuuzou: Jinsei saidai no kessen (Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo) but I'm setting my expectations pretty low, it doesn't look great E: if anyone wants some really poo poo-tier garbage kaiju films then you might want to go watch Zillafoot (2019) on VOD which looks like Suburban Sasquatch-tier junk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwYD4UatTzg God Raiga Vs King Ohga (2021) is also silly fun garbage, it looks like some friends threw it together during covid lockdown because they were bored. The whole thing is free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRerPUl-Io E2: Here's another interesting kaiju project, Howl from Beyond the Fog (2019). It's a 35 minute short which mixes animation with puppetry to tell a kaiju story set during the Meiji period. It's available free on youtube and also includes a behind-the-scenes doco tacked onto the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4jcuj5iqnU Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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Shin Ultraman was Real Good!
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moths posted:Shin Ultraman was Real Good! 
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moths posted:Shin Ultraman was Real Good!  I've heard it described as basically being three or four Superman movies edited together to fit two hours, mostly from the perspective of Lois and Jimmy Olsen, and that's pretty accurate. It's a kinda brutal pace, but at least it means nobody has the time to ask stupid questions or engage in artificial time-filling drama, it's all killer no filler. Also, surprisingly funny. Especially if you interpret it as a sequel to Shin Godzilla and this is a window into a post-kaiju Japan that's adapted to a world where that sort of thing just happens from time to time now.
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It really felt like binge watching a season of premium television, in a pretty great way. The themes were surprisingly well executed! All the humorous references to buying weapons from the US took on a much different context by the end of the film, which I appreciated.
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Mantis42 posted:Did Ken Penders get a job at Toho? Can't be - the designs are actually unique from one another
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